Monday, 31 May 2010

'Stinking hypocrisy of the media over David Laws'

Matthew Parris in The Times today argues that David Laws did not have to resign following the Telegraph's revelations about his expenses.He writes: "No, he did not have to go. No, it was not “always inevitable”. No, Mr Laws was not right to jump “with dignity”, “before he was pushed”. And who, pray, would have done the pushing? We, the media. What stinking hypocrisy, then, to call the fall inevitable, and then wring our hands in pious lament about what a tragedy this is for the individual and the nation, as though we were helpless witnesses to some kind of extreme weather event. We in the media have been the instruments, not just the chroniclers, of the fall of a good man."

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